Author name: SGJ

Comics

& comic-booking, and the rascally comic-bookers who comic-book Anyway, went to add this one/below to my comic books page, and saw that I never got around to building it up. So, it’s built up now. Right up to the left, here (in the current iteration of the site): hot topics>talking about>comic books.

New Flash Story Up

It would be in the new & improved States of Grace, but . . . didn’t write it in time:

411, Finally

How had I not read all these before? So amazing. I couldn’t stop. Wanted more. I’m a Search and Rescue Officer for the US Forest Service, I have some stories to tell : r/nosleep I’m a Search and Rescue Officer for the US Forest Service, I have some stories to tell (Part 2!) : r/nosleep

Best Reads from Lately

(and . . . all these I been saving up, too) https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2025/nov/30/fran-lebowitz-interview-love-novels-hiking-leaf-blowers-labubu Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees staggering reduction in homelessness | Street Roots https://www.newscientist.com/article/2506650-asteroid-bennu-carries-all-the-ingredients-for-life-as-we-know-it https://www.sciencealert.com/curiosity-cracked-open-a-rock-on-mars-and-revealed-a-big-surprise Chernobyl Fungus Appears to Have Evolved an Incredible Ability : ScienceAlert Huge undersea wall dating from 5000 BC found in France This Weirdly Smart, Creeping

Blue Butterfly Land

(let these stack up whilst we were getting the new site ready, so . . . feels like a double triple dose . . . )

New site

All the times I’ve said that before, it’s just been a new theme. Which . . . yeah, okay, sure, this is a new theme as well. But? So much has changed and’s still changing behind the scenes, not the least of which is that there’s someone way more capable than me getting things working.

Goodbye to a Column

for the moment. and, I suspect I’ve done a post like this already. but? I never saw this (below). just stumbled on it when looking up the title for one of these:

IG and Me

Or, if it’s a better (see: “worse”) pun . . . “InstaGraham?” Anyway, my account there’s going to be solely publisher-run, now. Which doesn’t really mean I’ve ever been running it. I did learn how to do one thing on it, but I can never remember to check in there, so will just keep out

Best of the Year, 2025

Here’s hoping I kept good enough notes for this to be representative, not a victim of recency bias or all the other biases I’m sure I’m prone to. Though, the one about “it’s pretty boring if there’s no blood” is a pretty good and proper bias, I have to think, and one I can’t apologize

New site coming

Hopefully within the first couple weeks of 2026? Current version’s developed some slowdowns, so, working with someone who actually knows what’s going on under the hood. So, should be cleaner and faster soon, here. After I move to California . . .

Many BHH links & etc

Best Books of 2025 The Best Horror Books of 2025 for When You Really Want a Good Scare The Best Horror Books of 2025 – B&N Reads https://apps.npr.org/best-books/#reset=true&view=covers&year=2025 (really https://apps.npr.org/best-books/#year=2025&book=246) https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/11/19/best-scifi-fantasy-novels-2025 https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/books/notable-books.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share (https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/11/24/books/book-recommendations-notables.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share) Every Book on Obama’s 2025 Reading List https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/list/display/199702383/2890165557 Booklist’s Editors’ Choice: Adult Books, 2025 Booklist Editors’ Choice: Adult Audio, 2025 14 Best

Aardvark!

Open Road covers

Gorgeous, yes? So cool seeing them all side by side:

Mannequins Tour!

I’m teaching the Stegner Fellows at Stanford in the Spring, so, when Nightfire releases Night of the Mannequins in February, I’m doing a few stops west of the Rockies. https://us.macmillan.com/tours/stephen-graham-jones-night-of-the-mannequins Also: ECCC! (was supposed to have been there in 2020, thrilled to finally be there now)

The Expanded States of Grace!

Out today from Open Road. More flash than it used to have: Or, talking flash, this is my sort-of definition of it:

Hadn’t thought of it like this

I mean, in spite of wondering and wondering and not being able to figure out why all the intolerance we’re seeing, experiencing, trying to live through, are going to have to live down somehow:

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